The "quenching and partitioning" process: Background and recent progress

Materials Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 417-423

  Speer, John G ^a   Rizzo Assunção, Fernando C ^b   Matlock, David K ^a   Edmonds, David V ^c  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon partitioning; Martensite; Retained austenite

Indexed keywords

AUSTENITE; HEAT TREATMENT; MARTENSITE; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; QUENCHING; STEEL METALLOGRAPHY; THERMODYNAMICS;

CARBON PARTITIONING; RETAINED AUSTENITE; STEEL MICROSTRUCTURES;

CARBON STEEL;

EID: 33644543046     PISSN: 15161439     EISSN: 15161439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-14392005000400010     Document Type: Review

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